China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has stated that retail sales of consumer goods in China amounted to RMB 36.6 trillion ($5.69 trillion) in 2017, up 10.2 percent year on year, constituting the 14th consecutive year of double-digit growth. As for 2018, the MOC expects that China’s retail sales of consumer goods to see a year-on-year growth of 10.0 percent.